Been working on this for a couple of months now. Building a OOO sized guitar based on a vintage Martin, it has a torrified spruce top with rosewood back and sides, mahogany neck with ebony fingerboard. It's been a challenge, seems half my time spent on this is building jigs.

All glued up and trimmed the top and back, ready to cut the channel in for binding and perflingGlued the truss rod in and glued on the ebony head plateNice color on the backI didn't get pics of the binding going on, it was a royal pain. Glue everywhere! finally got it in and scraped down.

It’s a kit from Stewart McDonald. I plan on building another kit and then do more on my own, I’ll still get some of it pre-bent or serviced. Some of it requires specialty tools that I don’t want to buy.

Did the neck fitting and finished hammering the frets in and then filed the fret ends smooth.

The neck test fitted to the guitar body. Finally looks like a guitar.

Next comes the initial bridge placement and then on to pore filling and sanding. The bridge placement is challenging, it will determine the ability to tune and intonation. Not sure if I want to buy a jig or measure 7 ways from Sunday to get it right.